- Can we talk about something?
So, I know I'm a little bit late talking about this,
but Nikita Dragun caused a lot of controversy
with her first single appropriately titled "Dick."
Now, she claims that the song
is about empowering transgender women,
but in the process of promoting the song,
she disrespected several transgender women
and would return to her bread and butter
of pissing off black women.
So, I thought, as a black transgender woman,
that I would come to you guys
and share my thoughts about this entire situation.
And hopefully discuss Nikita Dragun for the last time
on this YouTube channel.
But before we start this video,
I wanted to make a little bit of a disclaimer.
Now, I know that there are gonna be some people
who hear the tone of this video and are gonna say
that I am jealous of Nikita Dragon's beauty and success.
And baby, I promise you,
that couldn't be further from the truth.
I think that Nikita Dragun is a pretty girl.
I really do.
And I honestly remember her from her pre-transition days,
and I really appreciated
a lot of the looks that she's put together.
And I think that she has a vision
that has been consistent throughout, right?
So, if I were to say that I was jealous of anything,
maybe it would be that.
But that all being said,
the reason why I'm not jealous of Nikita Dragun
is because, as a person,
I find her to be incredibly fucking tacky.
Now, y'all know that I try my very best
not to outright condemn the people
that I talk about on this channel.
I like to sorta see things as undulating shades of gray.
I don't think that anyone is completely bad
or anyone is completely good,
but I think that Nikita Dragun has shown us who she is,
time and time again.
And I guess I'm kind of tired of people acting so surprised
that she engages in controversy.
She literally thrives on it.
I literally can't think of anything tackier
than getting into controversy to shill your Alibaba makeup.
But I'm getting a bit ahead of myself.
Let's talk about what actually happened.
So, in Nikita Dragon's new budget music video,
she flashed her panties along with several pictures
of public figures with the word Dick,
written over their faces.
Most notably, a picture of her former employee.
(coughs lightly) I mean, boyfriend, Michael Yeager,
who is currently in a relationship
with another Instagram model.
On top of that, she showed a screenshot
from the rapper, Tyga, that sort of insinuated
that he was interested in her sexually.
But Tyga would later come out and disclose
that his company filmed a music video for her
that never saw the light of day.
In the video, she presents these screenshots
to essentially out these men for being interested in her.
And I guess she's just now figuring out that,
as a woman, she's probably going to have men
who are attracted to her.
Though, honestly, I'm really not sure anymore
how she feels about her own gender,
because she made this post on Instagram
in the process of promoting the song.
D-I-C-K sets trans woman free.
Free from being scared if someone finds out we have a penis,
duct taping our genitals
just to make others feel comfortable.
We are not the secret.
We are not sexual toys.
We are not women.
We are not men.
We are the fantasy.
And if you ain't fucking with me,
get the fuck out of my way.
Now, there's part of me that reads this
and kind of understands where it comes from.
So, sexism impacts transgender people in a way
where a lot of transgender people are pretty aware
of how CIS people view them,
if their genitalia is not consistent with their gender.
And so for example,
something like swimming is really complex because most
swimsuits draw attention to your genitalia.
And so some transgender people and I have experienced with
this will avoid going swimming for long periods of time in
their life, before they've had bottom surgery,
as to not make other people uncomfortable with the
current appearance of their genitalia.
And for some transgender people embracing their genitalia,
as it currently is, is quite powerful.
But I think that her message is a little inconsistent,
on one hand that she is decrying the type of fetishism
that makes men pursue her privately,
and not claim her publicly.
While on the other hand,
she is sort of embracing the type of fetishism,
that puts her in that position.
So I guess it all feels quite disjointed,
and odd to me personally, of course,
I understand how painful it is
to have all of these men in your DM's,
who are more than willing to pursue you privately,
who refuse to claim you publicly.
But the way that it's framed, in this video,
is almost like she's looking at it as a badge of honor.
And my thing is this,
I think that Nikita is again a very, very pretty girl.
I think that she can find men
who want to claim her publicly, but you know,
this is just my observation from the men that she's
attempted to date.
Those men, unfortunately,
probably are not going to also come with the clout
that she seems to be looking for in a partner.
Hi!
I'm between takes, I'm sorry.
I know I heard you slowly come in. I'm sorry.
You look really cute though.
Let me finish this one and then I have a few more,
I'm sorry. Today was a really long day.
Thank you.
This is my YouTube, makeup.
Yes.
Thank you.
I was going to be hard for me to film with you.
Cause you're cause it's like I don't usually film,
in front of people.
Yeah.
Okay.
Sorry.
Speaking of clout,
she also claimed to be the first trans pop star.
And frankly, for me,
this is the comment that made it super obvious that she was
trolling,
Nikita Dragun, was literally in one of Kim Petrus's
music videos.
Kim Petrus who, by the way,
just made history by being the first openly transgender
woman to perform at the VMA's.
To me, it's pretty obvious that she made this claim
so that people would rush to correct her,
and draw traffic to her.
And guess what, it worked. We're talking about her.
Not to mention that she also wrote the word Dick
over Sophie's face,
which is incredibly disrespectful.
Sophie is a transgender woman who has been incredibly
influential in pop music as of late,
who unfortunately recently passed away.
In addition to that,
she also wrote the word Dick over Marsha P Johnson's face.
Another transgender woman who passed away,
who a lot of people see as the woman who started the
Stonewall riots.
These two figures are transgender trailblazers,
who made their mark before unfortunately passing away.
And there's no way in hell, that in life,
they would have consented to having their
image manipulated for Nikita Draguns,
braggadocious song.
And there's no way in hell, Nikita doesn't know this.
She absolutely knows what she's doing.
This is Nikita's M-O and that's why
I find her to be incredibly tacky.
She literally just sits online and types a couple of words
that she knows are going to be controversial.
And she often picks easy targets, such as black women.
In another part of the video,
she also argued that she sets trends, that CIS women copy,
and she showed several pictures of CIS women with the word,
once again, Dick written over their faces.
One of these women was a rapper
who calls themselves Asian doll.
Asian doll would go on a rant where she misgenders
Nikita several times and would argue that her entire image
from her makeup to her plastic surgery,
to the clothes that she wears, is all her attempt to
synthesize a black woman's aesthetic.
And in response, Nikita would tweet, "Respectfully.
This statement was to show that trans women set the trends
for cisgender females yet never get the credit.
This was not meant to be shady towards you.
You just happened to be an example."
And of course, this comment upset a lot of black CIS women
who were incredibly offended by the insinuation
that a transgender woman who a lot of CIS women think
are attempting to copy them, could ever set trends
for CIS women.
Now, I think that Nikita is dead wrong for saying this.
And I think that the idea that people are specifically
trying to copy her looks is a little bit silly,
but that all being said,
what I think Nikita was trying to say is that the Instagram
batty look, as we currently see,
it does pull a lot of inspiration from queer folks.
For example, highlighting and contouring is something that
drag queens created.
It was a type of makeup to take a very masculine face
and make it look feminine,
especially, from afar on stage with lights glaring on your
face.
However, something like highlighting and contouring
is now seen as Instagram makeup.
These days, it's incredibly common for people
to highlight and contour the shit, out of their face
to present a elevated hyper feminine look,
especially on Instagram.
Social media has influenced a lot of our current
fashion trends and queer folks have frequently been
at the forefront.
And I think of early Instagram baddies,
I think of a Maya Scott,
a beautiful black transgender woman who was known for her
incredibly colorful hairstyles.
Maya Scott was doing the Instagram baddy thing before
Instagram baddies were a thing.
She was always posting these incredibly,
elevated pictures,
that have kind of become sort of the standard for Instagram
now.
But Maya Scott is frankly, part of the larger culture
of black women on social media who have always been
setting the trends.
That's why we're constantly having conversations about
non-black people,
black-fishing or appropriating styles that are associated
with black women.
If black women were not setting these trends,
this would never even be a conversation. Nakita knows this.
She's heard these accusations.
She's had these conversations. She's had these big debates,
she's come out and made statements about this.
There's no way in hell. She's unaware of this.
She knows that pissing off black women
will get a lot of people talking and
will help her trend on social media.
I've said it before on this channel,
but there is a whole industry dedicated to off black women.
And we feed it by responding to it.
Some people really do subscribe to the idea, that any press,
whether good or bad is press, right?
And some people have learned
that there's a lot of power and money in pissing
people off.
At the end of all of this,
she would say that it was all just a pussy stunt turns out.
She doesn't really care that much about her music and is
just trying to get attention so that she can promote her new
makeup.
Nikita Dragon's most notable talent is pissing people off
whenever she's criticized, she screams
that it must be transphobia,
but the truth is she just sucks.
And she'll probably continue to suck until she suck
this whole influencer thing, dry
and people stop paying attention to her,
no shade or whatever, but I've always seen people
who relied so heavily on controversy as completely
and utterly talentless at most.
She's a reckless troll and at least she's an incredibly
uninformed person who has no respect for the trans people
who came before her either way, I'm bored.
Anyway, what do you guys think about all this?
I would love to know what your opinion is.
Again. I hope this is the last time
we talk about Nikita Dragun on
this page because I have a very hard time believing she's
ever going to change her way. So yeah.
Let me know how you guys feel in the comment box below on
that note. I'll see you guys next time.
Bye.
- (upbeat music)